RIP Bob Weir

When at UNC, I stayed in Hinton James dorm, which had suites of four rooms with a shared bath/shower room. Because I was working about 24 hours a week (3 shifts, evenings or overnights) at Gravely Sanitorium and between working and studying, I really wasn't in my dorm room much. Once, on a Saturday night when I came back after finishing my shift at work, it was about 11:30 pm, I noticed there was a group of folks, boys and girls, in one of the other rooms just talking and drinking beer. To be polite, even though I was all beat to hell--I had worked the overnight shift Friday/Saturday and the evening shift on Saturday--I popped in to say hello. One of the unattached girls in the room, looked up, smiled at me, and said, "You look just like Bob Weir." I smiled and thanked her, stayed a few more minutes, and then went over to my room, collapsed on my bed, and immediately fell asleep. It was many years later that I realized . . . that girl was hitting on me. The notion that any girl would hit on me so farfetched to me at the time, that it never even crossed my sleep-deprived mind. For the record, neither then nor any time before or afterwards did I ever--even remotely--look like Bob Weir.
 
Peppers49 said:
I know the two drummers are still alive but Bob passing is definitely the end of an era in so many ways.
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Mickey wasn't an orignal member, he joined in 67, dropped out in Feb 71 and rejoined when the band came back from a nearly two year hiatus in 76, but of course he was without a doubt a full-fledged band member. From the little bit I've read, Kreutzman isn't in the best of health either. Love those guys but hard for me to see them using the Dead name with just one or even both of them in the band. Definitely the end of an era, but that's OK, there are tons of really good Dead-centric bands out there (quite a few better than Dead & Co, IMO), I don't see this music in live settings going away anytime soon and certainly plenty of bands and performers will be sprinkling Dead tunes in their live sets as well. The music never stops (sic)...
 
This one hits hard as it means the end of something special. I saw him in the Grateful Dead and then various other incarnations on up to Dead and Company.

Fare Thee Well, Bob.
 
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